. Rod and gun . threepots, was ready. This scheme did awayentirely with the old and unreliable lug-pole. I also had a nested cooking kitwhich proved invaluable from the pointof view of saving space. During the stormy days which follow-ed we spent our time in culinary , pizen-dog, damper — threenames for the same thing—which is sim-ply baking-powder bread, we startedwith, gradually increasing our experi-ments until we had tested all the con-densed and dessicated foods that we hadbrought to try. The result of these testsconvinced us that dessicated potatoesand dessicated eggs are a
. Rod and gun . threepots, was ready. This scheme did awayentirely with the old and unreliable lug-pole. I also had a nested cooking kitwhich proved invaluable from the pointof view of saving space. During the stormy days which follow-ed we spent our time in culinary , pizen-dog, damper — threenames for the same thing—which is sim-ply baking-powder bread, we startedwith, gradually increasing our experi-ments until we had tested all the con-densed and dessicated foods that we hadbrought to try. The result of these testsconvinced us that dessicated potatoesand dessicated eggs are a failure and atrap for the unwary. Erbwurst, Juli-enne and ]\Iaggis soups, on the otherhand were voted a huge success. Howweguzzled there in the lee of the island,the smoke rising unceasingly from ourkitchen all the live long day. Our next move was up the Madawaskafor hidden river), aptly named, for aharder stream to find as it enters thelake I have never seen. Here we glidedbetween denselv wooded banks, some. A Gibraltar-like Rock, Some Seven Hundred Feet High, atthe End of the Portage Into Bark Lake. hundred feet apart, turning curve aftercurve, for the river winds in the mostextraordinary way. At one point a car-ry of one hundred yards would have sav-ed us three miles paddling; at anotherwe could actually see the river throughthe trees, but had to paddle nearly amile to reach the place we had seen. One morning bright and early we werepacked and off, delaying breakfast untilan exposed point or island came in we silently rounded a curve with therising sun behind us a pretty picture pre-sented itself. Fifty yards away stood adoe in the short blue, back to us andquite unconscious of danger. On a near-er approach she jumped lightly up thebank with a flirt of the flag and stoodcuriously watching us pass. This wasthe first of the many deer we were tosee during the We explored the Madawaska as faras the point where the railway crossesit before entering Algonquin
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